• Adobe After Effects

  Miter Join Stoke Effect

  Posted by Tbuzali on September 17, 2007 at 2:32 am

  Hi,
  Is there any plugin like the Stoke Effect that allows to set a miter join instead of a round join? How would you animate (paint) a path without having round joins?

  Thank you
  Tofi

  Tbuzali replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 17, 2007 at 1:44 pm

  In After Effects CS3, you can set the line join type for strokes on shape layers:

  Work with strokes and fills for shapes

  I hope that his helps.

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  Mike Clasby

  September 17, 2007 at 6:25 pm

  In any version before CS3 you can get nice rounded ends with Render>”Audio Waveform”.

  Then don’t reference an Audio file (Audio Layer: None), then it won’t wiggle to audio.

  Path: Choose your mask.

  Display Options: Analog Lines.

  Drop the Softness to zero if you want a nice sharp edge, and match the inner and outer colors if you want one solid color. All in all it’s very flexible.

  If it’s not as smooth as it should be, up the number for “Displayed Samples”.
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  Mike Clasby

  September 17, 2007 at 6:27 pm

  Wow, I read that wrong, thought you wanted rounded joints.

  Sorry ’bout that.
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  Tbuzali

  September 18, 2007 at 3:36 am

  Thank you all!!
  The thing is I don’t have AE CS3, I have AE 7.
  Do you have any idea how could I acheive this?

  Thanks

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